Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-06-15
Mrs. r. NJ. Sparks is sick.

weeks more.
Now is a splendid time to paint your
house. No dust.
Some corn in this county has receiv-
ed its last blowing.
Lutheran preaching Sunday night at
the Christian church.
Those reed and rattan rockers at Rigg
& JOhnson's, are cheap. 1
Spring chicken is now on deck. 1t is
too rich for most people.
There is no mutton in our market
this year. 1t is greatly missed.
Mr.. l.. B. COrson continues to i'm
prove rapidly and will soon be up.
The Boyd cattle case will be tried
again at Anthony week after next.
The annual school meetings will be
held this year Thursday, June s0th.
For Rent-A good house in the north
part Of town. Apply to R. G. Eckert.
For RENT-'rwo business rooms, OPP
posite the court house. d. A. Mccain
less. 2
T. s. Proctor and D. Cornue repre-
sented Sun City at the county seat this
week.
Smoked meats, bologna sausage, and
every variety of fresh meats, at Z. T.
Mobiles. AZ
We were mistaken last week in stat
ing that Ii. NJ. Ingraham was out of
the race for register. His friends say
he is in to stay.
Noble & Nixon have a second hand
Nlchals, Shepard s. Co., Vibrator Sep
arator. nearly new, which they will sell
at very low figure. ga
At the Chr istian church, next Sun
day, the subject of the morning dis
course will be: 1.-The Christian Service
and its Reward"
Elder j. ii. Garrison, of st. Louis,
was to have attended the Winfield as
sembIy and then come to Sharon and
Medicine Lodge. He is at home in St.
Louis, sick, and did not even get to
Winfield.
Miss Gertie Boyd, of Sharon, writes
to announce the death of Clarence b.,
infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. O..
Mathews, the event occurring in that
place June Sth, at $50 p. m. The par
ents had recently moved to Sharon
from Cowley county. The little one
was months old.
1t has been suggested by an old citi-
zen that even if Medicine Lodge does
not intend to have regular whooping
Fourth of July, that there should be
a picnic i'll the grove, to which fami-
lies can go and take well filed baskets
and spend an enjoyable day. We sec
ond the motion.
The Christian church has extended
to Elder Mcfarland a vacation of a
couple of weeks, and offered to pay his
expenses to Ottawa. He has declined
taking vacation because church bus
mess here is not in suitable condition
to be neglected. lie extends his thanks
to the church for the courtesy.
A firm that handles only first class
and strictly pure goods, is the Oldest
and most reliable in the county, Stan
diford, Youmans 81 Eldred. This firm
is daily in receipt of an invoice, and
yet it keeps one man busy ordering.
They do not sell at cost, but do not
want exhOrbitant profits. Their bust
ness is conducted on the Live and let
live" principle. 8
We invite the attention of our read
ers to the INDEX to-day as a model
county newspaper. 1t is replete with
valuable information of interest to
every citizen and taxpayer, and we
have no hesitation In saving that no
paper in the county this week will con-
tain half the news to be found in these
columns, without copying from the IN
DEX. Now is the time to subscribe.
The wild plum crop is unusually
large this season, and this will be a
great blessing for Barber county. The
wild plum in this county grows on "a
bush but little larger than the goose
berry bush, and when it is properly pre-
served it makes a toothsome delicacy
for winter. Thousands of bushels are
gathered IN Barber county every sea-
son, and in the absence of tame fruit,
the wild plum is good substitute.
Last week, l.. f. Pearson and Hen
ry Blickhahn, who had been trading
lands for dry goods, drug stocks, etc.,
divided their property, Mr.. Pearson
taking the drug stock now being sold in
Fleming's old stand, and Mr.. Blick-
hahn taking the dry goods stock in the
Shreves building. But Mr.. Blickhahn
did not keep his stock long, for on Fri
day lie sold it to Maxwell Bros, of Har-
per, who will add to it and conduct
general store in this city.
The case of the state against Ike
Steele, charged with shooting Theodore
Beers, was commenced Saturday with
the following jury: j. w. Tiff, J. w.
Howard, E. NJ. Lineberger, Geo. H.
Heath, G. II. Brown, j. D. Burner,
John ii. Wheat, Sam'l Stewart. J. d.
Montgomery, J. W. Willis, A. r. Ham
mond, John Wilhelm. The state was
represented by w. s. Denton, G. W.
Ellis and S. L, Overstreet. The attor-
neys for the defense were T. A. Nc
Neal, w. II. McCague and G. NJ. Mar
tin, these having been appointed by the
court. The case was concluded yester-
day afternoon, when the jury retired.
Up to the hour of going to press it had
had not agreed, and there is no pros
pect that it will, as it stands Z for &C
quittal to for conviction. This is the
third trial nf fha aooa O1na a, hu.r,